> Unfreakinbelievable. They are just askin' for it, eh? And they could > have really wiped the floor on the Internet market, too, if they had > realized the synergy of ease, decent OS engineering, applets, OpenDog > and user frenzy. > > Moronic management is sooo expensive...RK

Yes, look what happened to other companies with good products but,
through mis-management and pricing problems, among other things, went
under (sometimes for good, other times it was just a "setback"). I
can think of three off the top of my head: NeXT, Commodore, and Atari.

> >From tbyars@earthlink.net Wed Jul 10 14:02:58 1996 > Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 11:00:51 -0700 > Subject: Re: Slices of Apple May Be Up for Sale > > Apple PowerBook sales are off 53% from one year ago. Apple's problems are > that they have priced their products (again) to high. The PM 7600 is a > great computer @ $1995.00. It is selling for $2995.00 and isn't worth it. A > PM 8500 is at best a $2500.00 computer and a 9500 is $2995.00. > > As a continuing example of Apple's stupidity, they RAISED the price of the > 9500 $1500.00 when they clocked them up from 133 to 150 mhz. > > Tim

I'd say they all need at least one economist who understands our
market on their staff.